Productive Spring Break(s)

Spring Break can be very productive. But actually, they usually end up not being productive at all. You're at school, the Friday afternoon before Spring Break, thinking... "alright! I have a whole week to do that essay and catch up and everything... everything's gonna be just fine!" Fast forward to Sunday night before returning to school... "crap." Here at Nintendo Boy, we want the exact opposite of that to happen. So instead of having all this free time with everything to do, we were PREPARED (like Daffy Duck and his handkerchief) AND PLANNED SOMETHING! For us, our Spring Breaks were nothing like how I described seconds ago. My Spring Break was about the second week of March, which allowed me to pick up Plastic Beach by Gorillaz at home (yay for an amazing album) as well as get together with the original Nintendo Boy crew (it's been sooo long), as well as meeting up with old high school friends to make The Great Bowl-Off video. It has almost 300+ views and it hasn't even been a month since it's uploaded, so I call that a win (remember the fact that we're not popular at all)! For the high school Spring Break, I was able to meet up with some more fantastic new people I met from Ubersuperbular... they were hilarious and we hope to do another collaboration in the near future! As the high school break nears the end of this week, Andrew Shain makes time out of his busy schedule of getting his driver's license to come visit me at Kennesaw! Okay, well, he didn't have to go that far out of the way... his cousin is the head IT guy at Kennesaw Hall... small world, huh? But seriously, it was so much fun, and I was lucky that 2 out of my 3 classes were canceled for that day so it was more time for our shenanigans!

After binging at the dining hall, and him making a mess in my room and writing all over the walls (you need to pay those fees, you hear me Andrew?!), we finally came up with an idea for a new video where I'm a total jerk to him as he tries to visit me and makes a home movie out of it... ohhh, good times. But really though, Andrew actually is that annoying in real life. *WINK + SMILE + THUMBS UP*

Click here to watch it on YouTube!

Oh, and by the way... we had so much footage for this video! Probably at least like 18 minutes, ahaha! Sadly, we can not do that (well we could, but who would watch an 18-minute video?), so it is quite possible that a director's cut slash deleted scenes video will be released to our facebook fans! Sigh, if only you knew how much I had to cut. So many one-liners will never be heard.... and by "never be heard," I mean "recycle for use" in the next video, HA! Thanks for reading!! (;

The Great Blog Post

After I kept uploading a test version of our new video to YouTube, I literally looked like Spongebob in that episode where he had to work the scary night shift! Why's that you ask? Oh... you didn't ask? Well, this is awkward. Okay well I'll tell you anyway! It's because SO much editing went into this latest project that I was twitching, panting, and pretty much freaking out until I finally got everything perfect! I think I've talked about before how my computer isn't powerful enough to handle playback of the AVCHD files I film with, so that makes it really hard to edit. So basically I have to watch it on the camera, write down the times of where I need to cut, clean up, etc, and then do it on the software, AND THEN upload it to YouTube as a private clip so I can watch it and see if that will work. Pretty time consuming if you ask me... but hey, it's worth it. So this new video is a special one. Because it is the first video of this year (FINALLY!) that brings us the long-awaited return of the Nintendo Boy crew to the theaters!!! Ahh it's been so long. I've had to fill the gaps by coming out with videos that feature special guests, and they've definitely proven to be a successful video series! But ohhh, there is nothing like our original sketchy videos that I started with Josh and Andrew (and Ellie here and there!), and I'm excited to say that I have finally seen their beautiful faces again over spring break! While it was great hanging out again, we were all excited to make the next Nintendo Boy video! Not only is this occassion special because you see some familiar faces, but you see some other famous faces as well! Well, okay, none of us are really all that famous, but I can dream right?! This new video features guest stars from the YouTube channel, Ubersuperbular Productions! I approached Danielle of the video group and had an idea for a collaboration. You see, dear reader, our own Andrew Shain is a part of this production as well. I have no idea how or when that happened, but it was probably when slash because Josh and I are in college, haha. Either way, I had the idea that the Nintendo Boy group and the Ubersuperbular group should go head-to-head somehow and fight for Andrew's love- err, I mean... rights to use him in videos! So, that's what we did! And like any good ol' fashioned arguement about wanting someone in a video, you settle it with a bowl-off!

Woohooooo, exciting stuff! As I mentioned earlier, there is a lot of hard core editing that went on in this video because the footage we had from the bowling alley was so raw... and after many trial-and-errors, I finally was able to pump out a great new video! Again, it features the original Nintendo Boy cast, a really awesome collaboration, and all of us bowling terribly... what else could you ask for?! Nothing. (:

Click here to watch it on YouTube!

Oh, and in case you wondering, this video will not be uploaded on facebook due to personal reasons... also, I've finally pretty much decided that it's not worth having the views of my videos spread out because of Facebook (as opposed to having all views on one video link) when not that many people like/comment on it (so I can see feedback since they don't show you the views)... plus, the HD setting on Facebook isn't up to par with YouTube (aka it's awful). So yeah. I will no longer upload Nintendo Boy videos to Facebook... sorry for the inconvenience (although special clips like bloopers I might still consider uploading...)! I will, in return, provide more exclusive stuff (yet to be announced!) on our fan page, so make sure you are a fan of us!! Thank you for reading this great blog post and PSA... have a wonderful day!

EDIT - April 18th, 2010: So... I'm not gonna go into details just yet why I chose to do this, BUT, this video is now on facebook for your viewing pleasure!

Click here to watch it on Facebook in case you would rather "like" it than comment on it... haha!

Video on the 3rd Floor

Just like Robert Downey Jr., I was giddy with joy when I was able to round up a few people on my dorm floor that wanted to be in my next video!! As I continue along the path of a collaboration/guest star route, the videos are gaining a fresh vibe to them so you don't know what to expect and from who! While I am a fan of character development (mainly for the "Sketch Comedy" series), it's fun to just let loose and explore more plot-based style videos. It gives me a chance to do more jokes with as little stretch as possible, haha! With that being said, let's talk about the newest video to call home here on the site! I've been living in the University Village Suites since August of 2009. 3rd Floor, to be exact. That's an inside joke (well not really). Also, that's a spiffy name for a blog post, which is mainly why I just wrote that, teehee. Since my roommate, Victor, lives with me, he obviously knows a little bit about what I do here, and ever since college started he's shown interest of making a video with me! It's a shame that it has taken this long to finally make a video, but it's finally happened! I contacted some people on my floor via facebook and gave them the opportunity to collaborate on a video for the site. You know, I guess I could have just walked to their door and asked them personally... HAHA! Well actually, it was quite difficult to get a hold of these people, ironically enough! Nevertheless once I recieved an overwhelmingly positive response, I went ahead and wrote out the lines for everyone in the video... yes... that's right. I WROTE A SCRIPT. JEFFREY VEGA HAD A SCRIPT PREPARED. SOUND THE ALARMS!

The video is about me going around, asking people what they think of this website... and well, let's just say things don't go so well for me. HOWEVER, in reality, things went VERY well, filming wise. We're all so busy during the day, all the filming took place literally at 1 in the morning... not exactly the most practical time to film, but hey, you gotta do what you gotta do, right?! I was so excited once everything was finished with all the guest stars, thanks to one of my closest friends Onelia for helping to film and putting up with my pickiness! (: The one thing that brought me down during editing was... well, the whole process. I planned to film 2 scenes for every person I worked with, and I would seperate the clips throughout the video with the other people so it had the effect of like going back to that person as if we never stopped talking. I was bummed to find out, however, when putting all the footage together that the video would be close to 15 minutes. OUCH. You could probably guess how hard it was to cut some things out... so many funny things will never see the light of day, and even after the difficult editing decisions, the video is still a lengthy one at right under 6 minutes, but at least I was able to get everyone who was filmed into the video! I've watched some people watch the video and they say the time passes by so quickly because the video is actually entertaining and doesn't drag on... yay! So, why don't you tell me what YOU think, hmm? (;

Click here to watch it on YouTube!

Click here to watch it on Facebook in case you would rather "like" it than comment on it... haha!

Not Yet Bored of Board Games

At last, it has finally arrived. That's right, the blog entry detailing the events of Board Games is finally being typed up! Well, I guess since you're reading this and it's already published and such, that doesn't matter or anything and well I say that because I'M typing this up NOW and uh- ANYWAY! Today, we will briefly discuss Board Games (mainly because it's been so long and I don't really remember...teehee) as well as some interesting background factoids that went into to publishing this video. As I transition to the body paragraph of this essay, I will go ahead and try to connect the animated .gif by saying that the "interesting factoid" was a decision that I made so I wouldn't have to keep trying to figure out why I have no views on YouTube (even Lenny doesn't know... ha!)

So. Board Games. Where do I even begin? Oh boy, this is going to be one awkward blog entry. Alright, remember that one random scene in "Takeover" where I called a meeting but only three people showed up to an event where I tried to get Josh to admit he likes Nintendo? Yeah I know, so random, haha. Those three people were in my Communications Learning Community last semester, and I became pretty close with them (and I will add them on the collaboration page soon... I know it's long overdue but eh, you probably didn't notice)! They knew I did videos (because I never shut up about it!) and were quite interested when I asked them if they were willing to help collaborate on a video! You know I think I actually already talked about this in a post about Takeover last year... ah well. Anyway, as we all returned from winter break I contacted them all about a video idea I had. After I received an overwhelming positive response, I went immediately went forward with my idea and came up with a rough outline (in my head of course... *nervous laugh*) and was super excited to get it done! We all moved back into our dorms the weekend before the first week of spring semester and reunited and had fun as we improv'd the entire video! So, there really isn't much to say. I mean, we literally improv'd it. I wish I was a little less annoying (I'm not like that in real life... *cough*), I wish Lauren (the girl on the far left) wasn't so mean to me, I wish Aubrey (the girl in the middle) wasn't so annoyed by me, and I wish Jason (the guy on the far right) had more lines, because he was hilarious! But yes, it was a very nice collaboration that I'm very proud of, but I don't think there will be any more videos with them since they got mad when I spit chocolate milk on them and everywhere (without telling them what I was going to do, I might add)... HAHAHA, just kidding. Or am I? No no, I am. They were terrific guests and look forward to working with them again. We will see... (:

Alrighty, and now for interesting factoid time! Not a huge deal, but definitely worth mentioning. This video was given a different kind of treatment for publishing: YouTube EXCLUSIVE. That's right, for one week, I decided to only upload the video to YouTube (and not on facebook just yet) to force everyone to go through the popular video site to watch my latest episode! Why did I do this you ask? Well right off the bat, YouTube HD is FANTASTIC! Facebook's... or really anywhere else... is not so much. I wanted everyone to see my new video in a beautiful resolution... that's a harmless wish, right?! (: With this, I also conducted an experiment: How many people *actually* watch my videos? I know, crazy right... who would EVER want to know that? The reason why I may not have the best estimate is that my views are skewed because of facebook. Grrr, I'll get you popular social networking site! *shakes fist* The only reason I post my videos to our facebook fan page is because people have a better, easier option to comment... and you guys know how much I love feedback! I repeat: this is the only reason... so if I don't get any likes/comments than I assume no one's really watching it.. or people are just lazy. Eh. But anyway, my experiment actually resulted in me now knowing that people really do watch my videos because, in the week that Board Games was only on YouTube, it garnered unusally high views compared to the others. In fact, as of writing, the video has more views than most of my videos that have been out for more than a 2 months! Now there's the kind of thing I like to see! Now what will I do with this new found information? Not sure yet... I may continue to make the videos exclusive for a week for the sake of YouTube views, but at the same time the facebook video suffers because no one watches/comments because they'll be like.. "oh that's not new, I've already seen that!" My case is proven with Board Games on facebook, which has only a comment by one of our actors... :/ SO. It's a hard choice. Perhaps I'll just continue to upload them to YouTube & Facebook at the same time so neither suffer but at the same time the views will be more spread out... BUT, as long as I receive feedback, I can live with that! *looks at you* (;

Click here to watch it on YouTube!

Click here to watch it on Facebook in case you would rather "like" it than comment... haha!

All you wanted for christmas was another nintendoboy video...

Written by: Katie Marsh

Hey nintendoboy fans! I never ever thought I would be writing a blog post for nintendoboy.com (much less be in a video xD), but here I am! So, I am happy to inform you that part two to Takeover is up today! I had TONS of fun making this little set of videos with everybody, but I honestly had no idea that the making of these videos involved so much time! I mean, when you're watching nintendoboy videos, they are only three minutes long so you're probably thinking, "HAHA! What a funny nintendoboy video, I bet that took no time at all!" ... Okay, so you probably weren't thinking that at all (except for the HAHA part, right?), in fact, you probably haven't thought at all about how long it takes to film and edit a video. Well neither did I until recently! First there has to be a plan of some sort of what the video is supposed to be about. And for the first time EVER (I'm pretty sure...), someone -Jeffrey Vega- actually wrote out a rough sketch before filming *GASP*! I know, I know, it's crazy... Second, you actually have to film the scenes in the video (Who would have thought?). You would not believe how many times it takes for one scene to be filmed sometimes! Luckily, there is a lot of laughing and silliness involved when this happens, so I think everyone secretly enjoys the 117th take... As for editing, I still don't really know that much about the mechanics of it. But I do know that Jeff does ALL the editing, and that it takes hours and hours, and that he does an awesome job :) and probably doesn't get the credit he deserves here because who thinks about the editing of a video while you are watching it? Usually no one. But now perhaps you will!

Anyways, now that you know a little bit of what goes on behind the scenes, I hope you enjoy part two even more now that you know how much time, effort, and TLC goes into these videos, along with the fact that the videos are being put up on a weekly basis currently. Whether they will be in the future weeks remains a mystery! I don't know of any videos in the near future, but hopefully I am wrong and there are more ideas to be filmed during the winter break! I would love love love to be involved in more videos now that I've experienced what its like once already (Wait, twice if you include part one... wait, thrice if you include the failed Halloween video!)! All right, well, go watch the video, LOL (literally), and comment on the video (here... or on youtube... or on facebook... or on all three! The choice is yours :D). OH! And happy holidays!!!

Click here to watch it on YouTube!

Click here to watch it on Facebook in case you would rather "Like" it than comment... haha!

How many takes does it take to make a video?

Written by: jinxsprinkles999

Well, so much for being consistent wiith our episodes. well as far as I know we have a two part drama coming out soon. I can tell you this there is: suspense, love, happiness, DEATH, and LIFE to the new and improved nintedoboy the series. I don't want to over dramatize it though so don't expectoo much out of this new and improved two part series. Luckily for us it did not rain for these two days and it has made things a lot easier for us. We introduced new characters that may or may not be permanently be added to our list of cast members. THE KGB!!!!!!

DUHN DUHN DAAHHH!

Amyway. We started out with the idea we were going to do only a few episodes but with that said, we will be trying our very hardest to upload every month. Maybe we can keep that promise.

Jeff: Promise? who said anything about a promise??

Nevermind I guess we will have to go back to uploading every college break. for now there should be an episode every week for you loyal fans out there so we hope to increase our activity over the next couple of weeks so hang tight and get ready for the start of a new series. The only thing we really need now is a theme song. I was really hoping we could convince the guys from Anamanaguchi to compose a song for us considering they are using a nintendo to help make their songs. I thought that was pretty cool but commissions are probably expensive, and 3 cents a day won't cut it.

Jeff: What are yout alkign about?! we don't even make 1 cent a day

okay then 1/2 a cent a day then

Jeff: OH COME ON!

Getting back to Anamanaguchi (which we hold no rights to the name or anything to do with the band Anamanaguchi just so we avoid copyright problems) we really hope that we can get some way to incorporate their musical talent in our videos. And guys from anamanaguchi if you read this please feel free to pitch in and we will support you in anyway we can. Its not like we are begging or anything

Jeff: PLEASE HELP US!!!!!!!

just ignore the peanut gallery for now. although it may seem like we have it under control I am quite sure it took us 113 takes to get the two vids right. Well thats a story for another day so enjoy our new episode:

Click here to watch it on YouTube!

Click here to watch it on Facebook in case you would rather "Like" it than comment... haha!

The Magic of Editing... and Stuff

A few days ago I was about to post a blog entry about the recent adventures the project has been through. Some of this goodness included us attempting a Halloween video and planning a Black Friday video on their respective dates. You may realize now that none of those videos made it, but I would like you to know that the original guys (me, Josh, and Andrew) have gotten together a couple times during college breaks and have tried to get something done. The fact that we haven't done something since August and have tried other times for a video with no luck has placed frustration upon us, much like Joseph Gordon-Levitt over here! Sigh... Anyway. The reason why I didn't bring you that post mentioned earlier is because I brought a video that I trashed back to life! On Black Friday, we got together and planned to do a "Black Friday 2" (oh boy!), but instead we went with an idea I've had for a while, which ended up being our first crack at pop culture... facebook... haha! I was UBER excited to do this because I felt the real joke was something that every facebook user had experienced. We make fun of those "fan pages" that people can become a fan of that have the most ridiculous themes. Just one at the top of my head and that actually is in the video is the "I go slightly out of my way to step on a particularly crunchy-looking leaf." I mean, I love how people actually make these and people become fans of them... I really wanted to know every little detail about you!...right. But seriously though, some of them are legit funny and there are a few that everyone can relate to which makes the whole joke even better with little to no effort. Brilliant, huh? (:

So yes, we filmed this video at the forum in Norcross (same location as 'Wishful Thinking') and it turned out pretty well and it was SO much fun to do, and also the fact that it was a reunion of the NintendoBoy staff, was a very fun day indeed... in fact, it was so much fun, there are bloopers at the end of the video! Yay! I said it. A new video is here, but I'm sure you've figured that out by now. Ha. We had soooo many clips of the first scene, and it was VERY hard to put all the best laughs in the video and still keep it under 4 minutes... but, here it is, finally! You see reader, the reason why this took a couple weeks to come out was... well ACTUALLY, this video was never scheduled for release because of some reservations I had. The biggest problem was that the audio wasn't so great... there are some parts where the mic didn't catch some of our witty phrases and almost rendered the clip useless, and it was also VERY cold and windy that day so the loud windy windyness makes a cameo in the video... EL OH EL! Long story short of a day of editing, I discovered that my fancy pancy video software has a feature where I can legit edit the decibles of volume (should have known, yeah yeah), so I was able to change the volume of the clips even after they were filmed... I guess that's why they call it the magic of editing? Or does no one say that? Ohhh... well this is embarrassing! So anyway, please enjoy this long lost reunion of the NB-ers! (:

Click here to watch it on YouTube!

Click here to watch it on Facebook in case you would rather "Like" it than comment... haha!

Getting Nothing / Everything Done

There are always two choices to everything. Or, at least two, anyway. One of them is getting nothing done... and that is no laughing matter, right Christian Bale?! (; The other one is getting everything done... and the latter is always something that should be on the horizon. Since I'm in college, and considering it's really expensive and a vital component to my future success in life, I've decided to get everything done in college. That's right people, I'm doing well right now... academically. The college I currently attend, KSU, does not have the major I want to... major in... so I'm working on kicking butt here and gaining a plethora of hours to transfer to UGA, which has one of the best journalism schools in the nation! I am on the right track, having already a lot of hours from my hard work on my AP & IB exams in high school! Also, Josh attends UGA, so if we both go there, we'd most likely try to room together, and the site may very well explode with continuous content! =] Having said that, there are things to do. Goals to reach. People to see. Places to go. (I dunno why I said all that, just kinda rolled off the tongue). Because of the busy life in college, as you all know, there hasn't been a new update or video since we all left for college in August. Although we are all used to long breaks in videos, huh? :-/ WELL ANYWAY, you know where this is going. There's a new video out! In my quest to "getting EVERYTHING done," I can't leave out my internet project... which, for the record, I enjoy very much... if only there was more time in the day... *sigh*

Sooo... here it is! It's called "Hardly Working," and it guest stars one of my good friends, Sara Endres, who visited me here at college last night, and we were like... let's make a video; that's right, this video is 100% improvised. No joke. We had no idea what we were gonna do, but Sara and I had a blast doing it!! That being said, this video is the first ever to not feature the original crew, only because we have all parted our separate ways in college for now. However it won't be the end of the other guys, as we will continue to try to make videos with Josh and the rest of the gang whenever we can! But this video is refreshingly new, and I think you guys will like it.. at least... I hope you will, haha! Consider this a short, but quick update of the site, and despite college being busy, we will do our best to serve all of our lovely fans! (:

Click here to watch it on YouTube!

Click here to watch it on Facebook in case you would rather "Like" it than comment... haha!

Wishes Do Come True!

Wowers! Well this had to be the quickest turn around time for a video yet! NEW RECORD! (ahh I miss Mario Party N64...) It was just last week that the site had a spark of activity... in one week, we released probably our best video to date (didn't you just love my amazing editing skills at the end?! ... and I did it with only a broom mashing on the keyboard... el oh el!), we opened up a Facebook fan page for the site, and received 30+ fans in this short time frame (not a lot.. but hey.. we're anti-social so it's a surprise!). I'm proud to say that after a week, we've received a lot of feedback (mostly thanks to the facebook page where the videos are actually there to be "liked" and commented on). And now today, a week later, I'm just as surprised as you are that we have another video... that's right... just a week later! However, there might be a catch... this could very well be the last video with the original guys. D: Why is that you ask? Well believe it or not, it's not because I'm all depressed and stuff... it's because we might not have a choice. In almost a week from now, Josh will be heading out to the University of Georgia and I'll be heading out to Kennesaw State University... while Andrew stays in Norcross for his senior year of high school! We are all heading out in two opposite directions, an hour away in each direction! Tearrr... I know.

:/ Who knows what will happen then?! Don't get us wrong... we know there is such a thing as weekends, and we will definitely try to meet up somewhere and continue making films... but the way I see it is that if we already have trouble getting together over the summer, how will we do it when we are going to be buried in books and far away from our homes? Sigh... I'm glad we were able to make this last great video (we had alotta fun!) with us three original Nintendo guys (haha), but hopefully it won't be the last!

Okayyyy... sooo, information about the video? Ugh, I hate this part.. haha... there's always so much to explain! But at the same time not really... well, so Andrew had "meet your teachers" at NHS, so since my sister is a rising freshman, I tagged along, meeting up with Andrew at the school... and from there, we actually had a little "re-union" with a few friends as a surprise to see Megan!! Yes, that Megan.. from Boredom!! She has been gone the entire summer doing mission work in Tampa, FL, and needlessly to say we missed her. She finally returned home a few days ago and her sister gathered some close buddies and we all surprised her at the Waffle House near our school! Oh, that was quite fun! =] So from there, since I was with Andrew, we decided to head back to his place to just hang out or whatevs... the time is around 11:30 AM when I txt Josh to come over so we could do a video...! And so he comes over, we get GH: World Tour & Mario Kart Wii out of our systems, we spend the next 2 hours walking around his house, making jokes, eating cold pizza and popcorn thinking of what to make of what could be our last video! After a while, we were like.. ahh screw it, let's walk to the forum (a popular shopping strip mall slash hangout nearby) and we go into Barnes & Noble, where after seeing a dozen people we knew who begged to be in the video... haha, Josh, Andrew, and I all sit down at Starbucks, get a smoothie, and start writing down some ideas! Oh, and props to Josh... we had no paper or pencil to write down so he bought an $8 notebook so we could write down ideas.. haha (we borrowed the pen from the girl at Starbucks... and by borrow, I mean beg... haha just kidding!). After a good solid 30 minutes, I finally come up with the idea to film at the fountain.. to make wishes! So we write down the opening lines to have some sort of outline and we would wing it from there (a concept that is not new to us at all). After almost 76 takes for a 3 minute video (soo many distractions when filming on location at the forum, McDonalds, and Ingles...lol), we now present you with our video that took a long day of adventurous, but good times... we had so much fun filming this, and I think it shows! =]

Click here to watch it on YouTube!

Click here to watch it on Facebook in case you would rather "like" it than comment on it... haha!

The Aftermath of The End

Boy oh boy, where do I even BEGIN?! I guess it's my fault for waiting so long to write a blog post about all the happenings here. Well, long story short: the site is here to stay. But I must admit... the site was really going to tank... I was not afraid to pull the plug. But then something happened: inspirational comments. I must thank you all... for commenting and telling me your thoughts, ideas... everything. You have no idea how good it made me feel. I of course can't forget the many comments I received on Facebook as well, but... these site comments you guys left me... thank you. Thank you so much, I wish I could tell you how much I really appreciate your input. (: I feel as if I was hit with a box of inspiration!! =] (yes, that was my cheesy line to re-use that animated .gif image... HA!)

Since NintendoBoy.com will be around a bit longer (September 17th, 2010... the death date at the earliest... yes, that's right.. I renewed the domain name... haha), I decided to take my site shopping! We stopped by a few stores, but things we bought were new forum games, even more progress on The Rendezvous (you can login to see the portal now), and a pre-order on new comics by Laura! Soo.. exciting things have yet to come... oh, and a new video of course, but I'll get to that soon!! Anyway, as far as the site goes, I didn't stop there. On the About Us page, I added a new section for new visitors to the site and some info on why they should continue to return to the site even if they are not Nintendo fans (cool huh?!)... but wait, there's more... much more! A big project I undertook and is basically finished is an extension of the About Us page, which is the "Amazing People" page! This page is a more updated, detailed page of everyone who has worked on the Nintendo Boy Project... so if you really, REALLY wanted to know more about us, you can now quench your thirst! I've also linked this page to every video on the site, as well as the home page! Yeah, it's that important! OH, and is that a brand new game I see?

Sooo... moving on. I feel like I have so much to say but I'm looking at ways to say it, and in the least amount of words.. I don't want to keep you here too much longer, but there are a few more items I need to address. First off, a video, which is the most important thing of this blog post... ughh, I already feel like this blog post is so unorganized... oh well, I'm already too far into it... haha. ANYWAY, a video. It's called THE END. But it's not really the end, but just a video idea that came from the whole downtime of me almost closing the site... I figure... why not seize that opportunity and just throw out a video to accompany all that craziness? Well it turns out... this may be our best video yet. Not even kidding. I am so pleased with the way it turned out, and I think you will be too! So go check that out (links below) on the site, YouTube, and now.... on Facebook! If you haven't noticed, there's a new link on the sidebar to become a fan of NintendoBoy.com, so go ahead and support the site on facebook and watch and comment on the videos there as well! Soo... I guess that's it for now...? I can't think of much else... except to enjoy the site, its new slash upcoming features, and of course the new video*...! :]

Click here to watch it on YouTube!

With so many options, you have no excuse not to watch this new video... look at the pretty banner on the blog... you can even click the link up there too! LAL. Oh, and don't forget to check out slash update your iTunes podcast.. the new video will be there soon! Anyway, if I missed anything, or you have a question, comment, or anything, as always, please feel free to leave a comment and I'll get back to you. I apologize for how choppy this blog post was... next time I won't wait so long to update so I have less to say... haha! Thanks for hanging around the site... please, enjoy your stay, and the videos... we have cookies! :3

*For some reason, the new video "The End" was flagged by YouTube's automatic Content ID System, saying that I have copyright issues, so the video, soon, may or may not be taken down slash muted... I have filed a dispute claim, and hope to have the matter resolved so your viewing pleasure is not interrupted... just wanted to give you a heads up of the hard time I'm having! D:

EDIT #1 (6:57am): The video was taken down this morning. Working on a back-up plan...

EDIT #2 (6:17pm): Well, after a long, LONG day of frustrating events, one after another, I finally gave in and went back into the editing phase, replaced the offending music, saved it in HD (another 2 hours), and then it is now uploading to YouTube as we speak... hopefully by the time you are reading this, you will have finally watched the video... I'll give you a third and (hopefully) last update when the video is up and stable?! (:

EDIT #3 (7:57pm): Welll.. about 12 hours later (exactly...lol).. the video is up. Thanks for your patience everyone... and to those just joining us... hey.. the video is up... haha!